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Wessel Janse van Rensburg, on a railway platform

Wessel Janse van Rensburg

I am a creative technologist: I work out what new technology means, and then I build with it.

I trained in law and have worked at South Africa’s Truth Commission, as a journalist, as a product manager at Lycos Europe, as a creative technologist at Reach, as head of C-suite communications at Santander, and as a founder of two start-ups.

That mix is the job now: reading the code, the balance sheet and the regulation together, and saying plainly what they add up to. I build with AI coding agents inside a workspace of my own tools. I work from The Hague and London.

Available for senior roles in European institutions and think tanks, and for advisory commissions.

LanguagesEnglish and Afrikaans, native. Dutch, intermediate. Spanish, basic.
Right to workEU and UK.
EducationLLB · MA, media convergence · LSE, data law and policy

Published and broadcast in

Daily MaverickJournalism
City PressJournalism
Vrye WeekbladAI column
Pretoria NewsReporting
ITV · Tonight with Trevor McDonaldTelevision
BBC · Working LunchTelevision
BBC Radio 5 LiveRadio
Cybersalon · The Future of MoneyReport on digital currencies

Also: Retorik, a voice-matched executive communications platform I designed and built, at pilot stage. Papers and articles are listed with the work.

Working on Europe’s technology sovereignty?

Tell me what you are working on. I answer the same day.